On 2/22/12 2:47 AM, John Kearney wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.2
> Patch Level: 10
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> printf "%q" "~" not escaped?
>
> which means that this
> eval echo $(printf "%q" "~")
> results in your home path not a ~
> unlike
> eval echo $(printf "%q" "*")
>
> as far as I can see its the only character that isn't treated as I
> expected.
Thanks for the report. This will be fixed in the next bash release.
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